"I am pleased to report that the GCC Steering Committee and the FSF have approved the use of C++ in GCC itself. Of course, there's no reason for us to use C++ features just because we can. The goal is a better compiler for users, not a C++ code base for its own sake. Before we start to actually use C++, we need to determine a set of coding standards that will apply to use of C++ within GCC."

No, that is not what I meant. I meant the "(28% positive moderations)" part -- I thought you were refering to peopl whoe constantly vote negative as "voting trolls". But in any case that is all OT.

Personally I think that this news is more than the initial poster implied. The single most important FOSS compiler decides to accept code in a different language after a history of more than 20 years of developement.

Not sure if it is LLVM that caused this move -- competition is great -- nonetheless imo it shows that the GCC team is far from standing still as was proven lately with their 4.5 release that introduced some nice features.